Clement lepidus biography

LE'PIDUS, the name of a celebrated family of the Aemilia gens, which was one of the most ancient patrician gentes.
Lepidus was alive as late as 49, and the birthdate of Quintus is not certified, Quintus might equally be supposed a youthful consul born as late as c.
Le'pidus.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Lepidus

LE'PIDUS, the name of a celebrated family of the Aemilia gens, which was one of the most ancient patrician gentes. [Aemilia Gens.] This family first occurs in Roman history at the beginning of the third century before the Christian era, and from that time it became one of the most distinguished in the state. Finally, it became connected by marriage with the imperial house of the Caesars, but disappears towards the end of the first century of the Christian era. The following genealogical table is in some parts conjectural, but these are pointed out in the course of the article. (Comp. Perizonius, Animad. Hist. p. 131 ; Norisius, Cenot. Pis. p. 257, &c. ; Eckhel, vol. v. p. 123 ; Clement. Cardinal. Memorie Romane di Antichità, vol. i. p. 182 ; Orelli, Onom. Tull. vol. ii. p. 15; Drumann Gesch. Roms, vol. i. p. 1, &c.)

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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology
William Smith, Ed.

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Le'pidus

*parquai=os, the name of a celebrated family of the Aemilia gens, which was one of the most ancient patrician gentes. [AEMILIA GENS.] This family first occurs in Roman history at the beginning of the third century before the Christian era, and from that time it became one of the most distinguished in

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Terentia gens

Ancient Roman family

The gens Terentia was a plebeian family at ancient Rome. Dionysius mentions a Gaius Terentius Arsa, tribune of the plebs in 462 BC, but Livy calls him Terentilius, and from inscriptions this would seem to be a separate gens.^[1]^[2] No other Terentii appear in history until the time of the Second Punic War. Gaius Terentius Varro, one of the Roman commanders at the Battle of Cannae in 216 BC, was the first to hold the consulship. Members of this family are found as late as the third century AD.^[3]

Origin

The antiquarian Varro derived the nomenTerentius from a Sabine word, terenus, meaning "soft".^[4] However, Chase suggests a Latin origin, from terens, one who grinds or threshes, and classifies the name among those gentilicia which either originated at Rome, or cannot be shown to have come from anywhere else.^[5]

Praenomina

The chief praenomina of the Terentii were Marcus, Gaius, Aulus, and Publius, all of which were very common throughout Roman history. The Cu